THIS WEEK: The bigger tournament was the German Open, but the biggest improvements came from the finalists at Delray Beach. Lleyton Hewitt (up from 31 to 21, ATP #55 -> #41) defeated Xavier Malisse (qualified at 36, ATP #131 -> #112) in the final, signalling that they have plenty of promise. In Hamburg, Marcelo Rios took out the title to move up to 4 (ATP #8 -> #6), while ATP #3 Carlos Moya was a losing semi-finalist but still rose 4 places to 13. ATP #26 Mariano Zabaleta is still outside the SRI Rankings Top 50, but only just.

SRI Rankings Top 50 Issue #M90. 11th May 1999
Rank	Name	Rating Points	Rank Change	ATP Rank
1	Pete Sampras	1184	0	2
2	Andre Agassi	1121	0	13
3	Richard Krajicek	1080	0	5
4	Marcelo Rios	1050	+1	6
5	Patrick Rafter	1047	-1	4
6	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1037	0	1
7	Greg Rusedski	1023	0	11
8	Mark Philippoussis	1008	+1	9
9	Todd Martin	1001	-1	10
10	Alex Corretja	998	0	7
11	Thomas Enqvist	985	0	17
12	Tim Henman	967	+3	8
13	Carlos Moya	962	+4	3
14	Karol Kucera	959	-1	12
15	Gustavo Kuerten	958	-3	14
16	Felix Mantilla	939	-2	15
17	Jerome Golmard	933	+1	22
18	Jason Stoltenberg	907	+2	39
19	Francisco Clavet	902	+7	21
20	Michael Chang	893	-1	46
21	Lleyton Hewitt	891	+10	41
22	Albert Costa	890	-6	20
23	Younes El Aynaoui	889	-2	36
24	Magnus Larsson	887	0	43
25	Thomas Johansson	881	-3	19
26	Magnus Gustafsson	876	+1	45
27	Tommy Haas	874	-4	18
28	Goran Ivanisevic	870	-3	16
29	Nicolas Kiefer	868	-1	23
30	Dominik Hrbaty	860	-1	25
31	Vince Spadea	844	-1	27
32	Jonas Bjorkman	826	0	28
33	Fernando Meligeni	817	+1	58
34	Sebastien Grosjean	808	+1	34
35	Boris Becker	805	+2	79
36	Xavier Malisse	805	NQ	112
37	Thomas Muster	797	-4	40
38	Byron Black	796	0	37
39	Marat Safin	793	-3	31
40	Jiri Novak	789	+6	50
41	Jan-Michael Gambill	789	-2	51
42	Scott Draper	784	-1	42
43	Wayne Ferreira	773	-3	24
44	Marc Rosset	769	+1	30
45	Justin Gimelstob	769	-2	70
46	Bohdan Ulihrach	767	-4	38
47	Jim Courier	761	-3	60
48	Stefan Koubek	750	+2	67
49	Cedric Pioline	748	-1	29
50	Jan Siemerink	748	-1	33
52	Fabrice Santoro	727	-5	49
54	Mariano Zabaleta	725	+28	26
66	Nicolas Lapentti	707	+15	32

Rating Winners:
Lleyton Hewitt	+53	(W Delray Beach 99)
Mariano Zabaleta	+48	(RU Hamburg 99)
Xavier Malisse +34+Q	(RU	Delray Beach 99, QF 98)
Jiri Novak	+29	(3R Hamburg 99)
Carlos Moya	+20	(SF Hamburg 99, 1R 98)

Rating Losers:
Albert Costa	-57	(W Hamburg 98, 2R 99)
Fabrice Santoro	-30	(QF Hamburg 98, 2R 99)
Felix Mantilla	-29	(SF Hamburg 98, 2R 99)
Thomas Muster	-26	(QF Hamburg 98)

[ wo - walkover, wd - withdrew, ret - retired, def - defeated ]

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